Earlier today, Kevin Henrikson and his old buddies over at KickoffLabs hosted an intimate live YouTube webinar sharing the story of Acompli. Kevin, who currently leads engineering for Outlook Mobile over at Microsoft, was, until recently, Co-Founder and head of engineering at Acompli before the acquisition. And before that, he was an entrepreneur-in-residence for Redpoint Ventures.
Kevin starts his story with, "we knew from Zimbra, coming and trying to sell email servers against Exchange, that Exchange was just the dominate force and all the money of enterprise, the global 2000's all used Exchange generally speaking; so we knew if the if we were going to build an email client, and sitting at Redpoint, we're on Exchange at our kind of work while using Yahoo or Gmail for our personal mail. Having an email client that could combined all of that and have a modern UI was something we thought would be interesting."



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